EPOS a long term integration plan of research infrastructures for solid Earth Science in Europe TopoEurope, Heidelberg October 2009 INGV Massimo Cocco - INGV Rome

Research Infrastructure: definition  Research infrastructure means facilities, resources, and related services that are used by the scientific community to conduct top-level research in their respective fields and covers major scientific equipment or sets of instruments;  knowledge-based resources such as collections, archives or structures for scientific information;  enabling ICT-based infrastructures, or any other entity of a unique nature essential to achieve excellence in research.  Such infrastructures may be “single-sited” of distributed, that is an organized network of resources

The new vision The centrality of Research Infrastructures for Innovation Rome September 28-29EPOS Meeting3 John Wood, EGEE09, Barcelona, 2009

Rome September EPOS Meeting  ESFRI has been launched in April 2002 ESFRI, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, is a strategic instrument to develop the scientific integration of Europe and to strengthen its international outreach  ESFRI’s role and ambitions:  To jointly reflect on the development of strategic policies for pan-European Research Infrastructures  To prepare a European Roadmap with regular updates as different areas mature (!)  To act as an incubator for RI projects with pan-European interest..…but it is not a decision making body

First edition 2006 and updated in 2008 with 44 projects Preparatory phase funding for most with second round soon About 10 will fly by 2010 European X-FEL first to go real – civil construction started in 2009 and International convention agreed 2 days ago. The ESFRI Roadmap is an ongoing process

Rome September 28-29EPOS Meeting6 ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/esfri/docs/esfri_roadmap_update_2008.pdf EPOS has been submitted for the update of the ESFRI roadmap in November 2007 It has been evaluated during 2008 During the evaluation phase the EPOS’s partnership increased from 7 to 13 countries 3 countries are now joining the initiative and in other 5 contacts are going on at national level EPOS succeeded and was included in the ESFRI 2008 Roadmap on December 2008

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EPOS is a long-term integration plan that aims to create a single sustainable, permanent and distributed infrastructure that includes: geophysical monitoring networks local observatories (including permanent in-situ and volcano observatories) experimental laboratories in Europe EPOS will give open access to geophysical and geological data and modelling tools, enabling a step change in multidisciplinary scientific research into different areas What is EPOS ?

EPOS: the Concept EPOS intends to integrate five existing core elements within one cyber infrastructure to realize:  A comprehensive geographical distributed observational infrastructure consisting of existing permanent monitoring networks on a European scale (seismic, geodetic, ….)  Dedicated observatories for multidisciplinary local data acquisition (volcanoes, in-situ fault monitoring experiments, surface dynamics, geothermal and deep drilling experiments, geological repositories)  A network of experimental laboratories creating a single distributed research infrastructure for rock and mineral properties (like the ESF THYMER, TECTOMOD and EU-Login networks)  Facilities for data repositories as well as for data integration, archiving and mining (including different solid Earth data, such as geophysical, geological, topographic, geochemical)  Facilities for high performance distributed computing consisting of cyber infrastructures for collaborative computing and large scale data analysis

Ocean observation infrastructure Satellite observation infrastructure European Plate Observing System User Interface Permanent Networks (ORFEUS) Temporary deployments In-situ observatories Volcano observatories Labs Rock Mechanics Computational facilities Lab Analogue Modelling EPOS infrastructure concept …….. Data mining, archives Ocean Bottom Seismometers – EMSO Marine Geophysics (tsunami hazard, volcanology…… Space Observations DInSar – GMES…. Volcano Ash Dispersal. GEOSS…….. Users, science, education, public e-infrastructures

The INGV Integrated Monitoring System A CGPS, Seismometric and Strong motion co-located network GPS Strong motion Broad band seismometer Satellite link and Intranet

The Network today: 211 BB stations 137 CGPS 80 Strong Motions Out of ~290 real time stations

seismology ORFEUS/NERIES: Virtual European Broadband Seismic Network VEBSN December 2008BB stations in Europe beginning 2009 VEBSN ~ 320 stations March 2009 ≈1000 operating BB stations in

15 Science Case impact on society Volcanic hazard & risk 14/12/2015 Lava flow morphology & modeling A laser scanning survey of the summit topography of Etna forms the basis for quantifying with a probabilistic model lava flow hazard areas

16 Science Case facing technological challenges: rock physics Laboratory Experiments 14/12/2015

EGI NGI EGI NGI PRACE HPC PRACE HPC VERCE NERIES NERA NERIES NERA

The need for e-infrastructures l Gigantic Earth Science Data Volumes require the development of new approaches to web-based data and model exchange, data mining and visualization ( 500 seismometers yield ≈17 GB/day and 6.2 TB/year) l “Virtual Earth Laboratory” - Hypothesis testing will make increasingly use of high-performance simulation technology of Earth’s dynamic behaviour l “software is infrastructure” – scientific simulation technology needs to be adapted and maintained for wide use by the community 14/12/2015 Rationale

l “data rich” Elements: Web-based superstructure linking Earth Science Data Centres, standardize multi- disciplinary data and model exchange l “cpu rich” Elements: Simulation and processing technology needs to be professionally engineered, linked to the European High-Performance Computing infrastructure and the scientific data infrastructure 14/12/2015 Data & Simulations The need for e-infrastructures

EPOS: data life cycle 14/12/2015 Data storage & processing + Web Portal infrastructure EU HPC- Supercomputing Infrastructure Grid Raw Data (Level I) Data centres Data archives Model libraries Derived Data (Level II) Seismic picks, amplitudes, automatic Magnitudes Moment Tensors Level III - Data Processing, Visualization Tools, Simulation & modelling libraries Access Users

Volcano data integration GPS data integration Experimental data integration Other Geosciences data integration EPOS USER INTERFACE EPOS ELEMENTS

IMPACT ON USERS èEPOS will attract a potential user community in Europe and worldwide with particular attention to Mediterranean countries èThe user community will come from different disciplines (multidisciplinary RI) èUser community contributed to the EPOS conception phase by participating to international programs and projects (NERIES, EXPLORIS, Topo-EUROPE, SPICE,..) èEPOS will be accompanied by a coherent training program for the Earth science user community starting a competitive fellowship program dedicated to young researchers (Marie Curie, ESF, ERC, ITN,…)

23 EPOS: the Partnership èEPOS presently includes 13 countries: Italy, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Turkey, Greece, Norway, Iceland, Romania, Portugal èNew entries in the near future: Spain, Israel, Czech Republic èTwo international organizations involved: ORFEUS and EMSC (they will favour open access & new entries) èSeveral countries have direct links to their national roadmaps, but others are looking for an official commitment èNew contacts are ongoing with several other countries (Ireland, Sweden, Slovak Republic, Poland); others will start soon. 14/12/2015

 Pan-European integration of existing research infrastructures  Integrating multidisciplinary infrastructures as a key challenge for solid Earth Science  Identifying existing gaps and pilot projects to promote a modern implementation of RIs  Long-term sustainability of research infrastructures at national level  Guaranteeing maintenance and the minimum required implementation level  Supporting the development of the monitoring infrastructures coordinated with the Epos's pan-European integrated vision

25 EPOS IS TIMELY lThere exists: èa unique opportunity to join efforts in coordinating and integrating multi- and cross-disciplinary activities and data èthe concrete possibility to plan future investments in RIs relying on solid existing infrastructures and a coordinated perspective èa shared vision to rely on e-infrastructure investments and to propose new initiatives èthe necessity to face challenging problems through new shared programs and projects 14/12/2015

EPOS advances for scientists  Getting national priorities  Implementing transnational access  Giving visibility and coherence to our community  Structuring our community to be competitive for global challenges  Ensuring long term sustainability of our RIs  Reduce fragmentation  Optimize effectiveness and impact Rome September 28-29EPOS Meeting26

Grand challenges are pressing Will we be able to face them ? EPOS can contribute to this task We can use EPOS for empowering our researchers to own the future

Thank You for your attention to EPOS Courtesy by H. Igel